Infectious Disease

Professor Laura Allison Owens (formerly: Laura Allison Woods) has been an instructor with George Mason University’s College of Public Health since 2020. She has taught courses for subjects including Health Education & Promotion, Health Program Planning & Evaluation, Social Determinants of Health, Health Behavior Theory, Introduction to Public Health, and Health Research Methods.

Recent graduate completes first international MS in Global Health thesis studying the knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to malaria of an indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon.

Iran's Second Wave of Coronavirus Infections is Showing the Rest of the World What to Avoid

Dr. Roess is a professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Department of Global and Community Health. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in infectious diseases epidemiology, multi-disciplinary and multi-species field research and evaluating interventions to reduce the transmission and impact of infectious diseases.

Lila C. Fleming, PhD, CHES, is a global health epidemiologist and certified health education specialist. Her research examines bullying among middle school students, adolescent risk behaviors, maternal and child health, and access to health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Fleming teaches global health, applied health statistics, and public health research methods courses at Mason.